Thailand is a literal tyranny and a US-inspired police state. Really a shame he's so enthused about brutally repressing political dissent - otherwise Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha is a fine administrative leader and a friend of public transport.
That said, their judiciary is *at least* a corrupt as ours. So indeed if you have a big enough suitcase full of money you can probably do whatever you want. Guess Uncle Sam most have offered the Thai judge a bigger bag of cash than Clark could afford.
Thailand is one of the few places where a prisoner probably is genuinely better off getting extradited to America.
The judicial system is corrupt from top to bottom. If you expect us to believe they did anything other than accept a big old bribe, the burden of proof is on you.
It does seem like a pain in the butt to automate provisioning and deployment of a one-off system. Until something bad happens, and you need to rebuild that system in 5 minutes. Then you're really glad you did it.
Four standups per day is no doubt a serious drag on production. But it must be supremely effective at reminding developers that they are factory workers with no status in the company and absolutely no self-agency. Which seems to be the main purpose of Agile Scum(tm) methodology.
Yup. At many companies "devops" means ops/sysadmin without hardware. The old school ops guys might rack up a new server. The devops equivalent is writing some HCL and letting Terraform spin up cloud resources.
MIT would never weaponize the technology they develop. They totally don't run a major DoD weapons research laboratory. No one there is involved in the development of killer robots. I'm certain they haven't had any thoughts at all of selling this privacy invasion tech to repressive regimes for use in their automated tyranny systems.
You are correct of course, that a "free market" where oligarchs have unbridled economic power rarely produces widespread opportunity and prosperity, which I assume is what you mean by a "fair market". But I think it is a mistake to tie that valid analysis into a stultifying left/right framework.
The overwhelming majority of self-identified liberals and conservatives both favor "fair market" policies intended to promote common prosperity. Only tiny minority interest groups like Libertarians and Intersectional Progressives tend to support "free market" corporate absolutism.
In what I'm sure is a complete coincidence, both Intersectional Progressives and Libertarians are handsomely funded by the oligarchy, thereby gaining a voice in the State that far exceeds what is warranted by their meager public support.
Smith's Wealth of Nations is not about capitalism or "free markets". The famous "invisible hand" quote is not particularly important in the overall scheme of the book.
I've worked with a ton of "agile" companies. All of whom produced shitty, bug-ridden, hopelessly insecure crapware with deskilled, devalued, demoralized developers.
And two vaguely waterfall - actually closer to Spiral Method - companies. Where the software was solid and the developers comparatively happy.
Theory and pontification aside, my limited set of empirical data strongly suggests that Agile(tm) is a supremely craptastic method for producing software.
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The companies opposed to privacy rights are mostly parastatal corporations. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wi...
Thailand is a literal tyranny and a US-inspired police state. Really a shame he's so enthused about brutally repressing political dissent - otherwise Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-o-cha is a fine administrative leader and a friend of public transport.
That said, their judiciary is *at least* a corrupt as ours. So indeed if you have a big enough suitcase full of money you can probably do whatever you want. Guess Uncle Sam most have offered the Thai judge a bigger bag of cash than Clark could afford.
Thailand is one of the few places where a prisoner probably is genuinely better off getting extradited to America.
The judicial system is corrupt from top to bottom. If you expect us to believe they did anything other than accept a big old bribe, the burden of proof is on you.
Will the real Satoshi Nakamoto please stand up?
It does seem like a pain in the butt to automate provisioning and deployment of a one-off system. Until something bad happens, and you need to rebuild that system in 5 minutes. Then you're really glad you did it.
Four standups per day is no doubt a serious drag on production. But it must be supremely effective at reminding developers that they are factory workers with no status in the company and absolutely no self-agency. Which seems to be the main purpose of Agile Scum(tm) methodology.
Yup. At many companies "devops" means ops/sysadmin without hardware. The old school ops guys might rack up a new server. The devops equivalent is writing some HCL and letting Terraform spin up cloud resources.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Good one!
More than 95% of people sent to the Gulag were railroaded into giving a coerced false confession ("plea bargain").
Source for the number is the official fedgov statistics site:
https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?...
Innocent until proven guilty is dead. Trial by a jury of your peers is dead. Welcome to the New American Police State.
Do you also remove your license plates? In Norcal at least, FasTrak can use license plate readers for billing. No toll tag required.
However FasTrak does still encourage users to get a toll tag. Suggesting perhaps that plate readers are less reliable than RFID.
Nothing to worry about here.
MIT would never weaponize the technology they develop. They totally don't run a major DoD weapons research laboratory. No one there is involved in the development of killer robots. I'm certain they haven't had any thoughts at all of selling this privacy invasion tech to repressive regimes for use in their automated tyranny systems.
Thank goodness for MITtens!
DOES your battery even last through the day?
No one wants that. Unintended consequences.
It's not a "walled garden", it's a "prison state".
http://www.mondopolitico.com/l...
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It has been reported several times that Creepy Facebook also listens in on your mic.
"proof is what our justice system currently works on."
That, and big suitcases full of cash.
Yes. This. Regulation can be beneficial OR detrimental. Or often enough, a little of both.
You are correct of course, that a "free market" where oligarchs have unbridled economic power rarely produces widespread opportunity and prosperity, which I assume is what you mean by a "fair market". But I think it is a mistake to tie that valid analysis into a stultifying left/right framework.
The overwhelming majority of self-identified liberals and conservatives both favor "fair market" policies intended to promote common prosperity. Only tiny minority interest groups like Libertarians and Intersectional Progressives tend to support "free market" corporate absolutism.
In what I'm sure is a complete coincidence, both Intersectional Progressives and Libertarians are handsomely funded by the oligarchy, thereby gaining a voice in the State that far exceeds what is warranted by their meager public support.
Smith's Wealth of Nations is not about capitalism or "free markets". The famous "invisible hand" quote is not particularly important in the overall scheme of the book.
Something tells me a federal judge is going to be buying a new Tesla this week!
Theoretical principals over observed data! Yeehaw! If Agile(tm) doesn't work for you, You Aren't Doing Agile Right(tm)!
No way.
I've worked with a ton of "agile" companies. All of whom produced shitty, bug-ridden, hopelessly insecure crapware with deskilled, devalued, demoralized developers.
And two vaguely waterfall - actually closer to Spiral Method - companies. Where the software was solid and the developers comparatively happy.
Theory and pontification aside, my limited set of empirical data strongly suggests that Agile(tm) is a supremely craptastic method for producing software.
The official inflation numbers are VERY obviously wrong.
In my home city there are fucktons of skilled, experienced, unemployed blue collar tradesmen.